Power/Battery Icon Missing from System Tray Windows 7

Anonymous
2011-03-27T18:46:29+00:00

I have lost my power/battery icon from the system tray.  I've tried a few of the things listed on here but is still seems to be giving me trouble.

Like many others here, it is grayed out and selected to "off".  I'm not sure what to do now.

I have an ASUS laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium.

I happened to notice this at about the same time (thought it might be coincidence) that I removed Kasperskey and added Norton 360.

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Anonymous
2011-04-07T23:27:57+00:00

I've had this problem on and off since I had Windows Vista.  It doesn't happen as often now that I have Windows 7.  This is what I do...I open the "Windows Task Manager" by pressing "Ctrl + Alt + Del" or pressing "Shift and Ctrl" keys together then press "Esc".  Click the "Processes" tab and looked for "**explorer.exe".**Select that and click "End Process" at the bottom.  The taskbar and the entire system tray will be gone, but that's okay.  You will go back to the Windows Task Manager.  This time in the "Applications" tab, click on "New Task" button.  Type "explorer.exe".  The Sound and Battery/Power icons will reappear.  Hope this helps.  =)

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-09-25T17:38:46+00:00

    For Windows 10, instead of "End Process", you can click "Restart" and the Battery/Power icon will reappear. Thanks for the initial advice!

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-05-20T18:38:26+00:00

    Yo the man! (or the Woman!)

    Nick

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-03-14T05:00:33+00:00

    You are genious. The best tip I could find about a battery icon.

    Cheers

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-08-17T21:54:18+00:00

    Wow.  Sounded scary but it worked.   Thanks!

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